Gross Domestic Happiness: What Is the Relationship between Money and Well-being? What exactly is the relationship between money and happiness? It's a difficult question to pin down, experts say. While more money may make us happier, other considerations -- such as whether you live in an economically advanced country and how you think about your time -- also play into the equation. An increasing number of economists, sociologists and psychologists are now working in the field, and most agree that there is a strong link between a country's level of economic development and theAuthor(s): Knowledge@Wharton

Engaging Diaspora: Facilitating initiatives to create change in their places of attachment From September 2010 -- September 2011 Simon Fraser University and community partners convened a series of public dialogue and learning workshops diaspora and development.
Together we explored the ways Canadian based diaspora are involved in development projects in the global south.
This video captures some of the people and projects involved. This project was made possible with financial support from CIDA's Public Engagement Fund.
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Tip of the Week: NCBI's FLink For more information about this resource see our blog post at URL http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=6208. Here I'll introduce you to FLink, or Frequency weighted Links, NCBI's tool for linking items from one of their databases to a weighted list of associated items in another of their databases.Author(s): No creator set

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Pakistan floods cause humanitarian crisis Sept 18 - The United Nations says urgent assistance is needed in Pakistan as flooding continues to swamp the southern part of the country. Andrew Raven reports.Author(s): No creator set

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Libya's moving frontlines Sept. 18 - The frontlines at Sirte and Bani Walid ebb back and forth, with fighters' shows of bravado colliding with the reality of battle. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.Author(s): No creator set

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Clashes in Yemen Sept. 18 - At least 15 killed in anti-Saleh march in Yemen. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)Author(s): No creator set

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A Way to Connect MU President Ashley Barnes and ASOSU President Tonga Hopoi welcome to OSU for the 2011-2012 school year.Author(s): No creator set

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Jewels of the Jungle Jewels of the Jungle takes viewers on a world-wide quest for new natural medicines.Jewels of the Jungle takes audiences on a worldwide journey of scientific exploration, trekking throughout the forests of Australia, Bolivia and Peru, and into laboratories throughout the United States, presenting viewers with a first glimpse of what may become humanity’s next generation of wonder drugs.In recent years drug-resistant bacteria have rendered many of society’s ‘wonder-drugs’ iAuthor(s): No creator set

The most remarkable fact in the history of our age is the revolt against rationalism, economics, and utilitarian social philosophy; it is at the same time a revolt against freedom, democracy, and representative gover

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Transatlantic security relations This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As As taught Autumn Semester 2010.
The module will investigate some of the key issues that have characterised transatlantic security cooperation since 1990. The module will focus on issues that relate to the security of the European continent as well as to matters of global concern.
Educational Aims
This module aims to:
Give students an understanding of the development in US-European security relations since 1Author(s): Rees Wyn Professor

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MIPS: Risking It All on RISC [Recorded: July 27, 2011]
Stanford University President John Hennessy and MIPS colleagues Bob Miller, Skip Stritter and Joe DiNucci will discuss the story of MIPS, a groundbreaking company in the computer industry.
In 1981, Hennessy led the Stanford research team that developed a Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) microprocessor that had the potential to dramatically increase performance and reduce costs.
Then in 1984, Hennessy joined Skip Stritter and John Mousourris to co-found MIPS CoAuthor(s): No creator set

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British prime ministers 1783 - 1852 This learning object on British Prime Ministers, 1783-1852, is designed to support the programme of lectures and seminars on the module The Many Faces of Reform: British politics, 1790-1850.
It will help familiarise you with the leading political figures and parliamentary groupings of the period we are studying. It will also test your knowledge of this information and help you think about some of the wider political developments which we will be studying.
Copyright Information: All of the imagAuthor(s): Gaunt Richard Dr;Tenney Julian;Huskinson Sandra

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Beyond infinity This popular maths talk gives an introduction to various different kinds of infinity, both countable and uncountable. These concepts are illustrated in a somewhat informal way using the notion of Hilbert's infinite hotel. In this talk, the hotel manager tries to fit various infinite collections of guests into the hotel. The students should learn that many apparently different types of infinity are really the same size. However, there are genuinely "more" real numbers than there are positive inteAuthor(s): Feinstein Joel F. Dr

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